bobbass4k

Had a bit of an oceansize listening fest and finally got unfamiliar and sleeping dogs down pat. Both absolutely awesome basslines, and a masterclass in playing in odd time sigs but still keeping it groovy (which the whole band is a masterclass in to be honest): Since I assume 95% of you will have had no idea what songs or band I was referring too. Both displaying the heavier side of the band, but heavy as it should be done, interesting and complex as hell. I urge you all to listen, there's a lot worse things you could do with 14 minutes.

Used them for a while, decent strings for the price, wear out a bit quickly for my liking, and the sound quite dull once they do wear out, but decent enough.

Just wanted to give an uncharacteristic plug. It was new string time and i've been playing in Drop C quite a lot lately so I was gonna get some heavy gauge high-beams, but came across these instead, so I bought a pack of these in my regular gauge (0.045-0.105). They claim they're specially engineered or some such to provide better intonation and tension when detuning. I was a tad skeptical, but I'm glad I bought them. The intonation difference is noticeable, quick fret changes on the low C and G are a lot less muddy, but the main selling point for me is the feel, they somehow maintain pretty much the same tension in any tuning, I used to hate the slackness of playing in Drop C, and I used to get a lot of fret buzz, no more. They also stay in tuning magnificently, with my old strings I'd have to retune the low C every 5 minutes for a while until it kept it's tuning, not with these, tuned up once after I restrung and haven't had to do it since. If you drop tune, you need these strings. That is all.

Morely do one, barge concepts do a blender with an expression pedal input, but you'd have to get one second hand and it'd be pricey.

[quote name='deej' post='972437' date='Sep 30 2010, 10:24 AM']You use the wah in the GR's loop? Ive never thought about doing that before. I could easily rock that board, good stuff![/quote] Yea just something I thought i'd try when hooking the board back up, it sounds pretty sweet

Still not much change, famous last words I know but I'm liking this setup: I need to get some proper patch cables to replace the bcrappy brightly coloured place holders, but that's pretty much it, might re-add a trem too (sold the seek-trem for a quick cash injection and i'm missing it).

There'll be an exhaustive list somewhere. I say ye google. To actuallt be vaguely helpful, an envelope filter is a filter that affects the signal based on the amplitude of the input signal (basically how hard you play). In most filters (up sweep), playing harder makes the filter effect stronger. It's called an envelope filter because there's a trhing called the signal envelope that's actually kinda complicated. I'm not sure I can really explain what a filter itself is without using the words quack and squelch. So it makes your bass quack and squelch. There are different types of filter that use different methods to control the filter effect. A wah is basically a manual a filter (hence why envelope filters are sometimes called auto-wahs, although this is wrong because any filter that you don't have to control manually is an auto-wah), you can get sequencer controlled filters and LFO controlled filters and other things, but envelope filters are the most popular among bassists.

People generally put it immediately befor or after dirt, it's personal preference which, wah>dirt is much subtler, but i love dirt>wah, gives a very synthy vocal sound. The eq adds an interesting twist though, i assume the eq's there to add low end back to the dirt? If so i'd put it after the eq, but if you put it before the eq you could tweak the eq to get some interesting tones out of the wah

[quote name='risingson' post='967247' date='Sep 24 2010, 11:45 PM']A friend of mine is supporting those guys for the second time in the next few days. Not my thing personally but interesting music, liked 'The Charm Offensive'![/quote] Cool, which band is he in, TTNG or Mojo Fury? I'm off to see them in london so I won't see mojo fury (they're been replaced by the awesome Yndi Halda, who'll probably have time to play one song)

[quote name='Dudgeman' post='966265' date='Sep 23 2010, 11:31 PM']Hi all Just a quick one Is there much of a difference between a vintage (say 90's) OC-2 and more modern versions.. I'm talking about internals and sound quality not casings... Cheers[/quote] We should probably sticky this, no difference whatsoever, the circuit and I believe components are identical. Don't pay an extra £100 for a letter r and a lighter shade of brown.

Or the Moog Expression pedal

A harmony pedal (the digitech whammy is the most ubiquitos option) and a decent distortion will do the same thing, but it won't sound exactly the same. As far as I'm aware the unibass is the only one that does it in one box. My way of filling out the sound is to play one octave higher and use my oc-2 to harmonise one octave down with distortion.. Octave down tends to sound a lot more natural than fifth/octave up.